Re: [vchkpw] new server OS suggestions

2007-11-05 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 04.11.2007 um 22:51 schrieb Quey: If you are going to use that as a stand point, maybe you need to use bloated winblows :) No thanks. Or for that matter in Linux I think Ubuntu, or OpenSolaris as they all apparently have trillions of packages ... It's not the packages - it's

Re: [vchkpw] new server OS suggestions

2007-11-04 Thread Rick Widmer
I fail to see what this has to do with vpopmail. Please take it off the list. Rick Michael Johnson wrote: Quey wrote: Michael Johnson wrote: It is nice to use Slackware because it doesn't do funky stuff with software. qmail installs fairly easily and fits in decently well. Oh, it also works

Re: [vchkpw] new server OS suggestions

2007-11-04 Thread Quey
Michael Johnson wrote: I follow the rule that one should never log in directly as root. In this case, you need at least one mortal local account as an initial login. - Michael It should not matter about a local root login, after all you do protect your servers at the core routers dont you.

Re: [vchkpw] new server OS suggestions

2007-11-04 Thread Michael Johnson
Quey wrote: > Michael Johnson wrote: >> It is nice to use Slackware because it doesn't do funky stuff with >> software. qmail installs fairly easily and fits in decently well. Oh, it >> also works great on slower hardware because you can strip services to >> the bare essentials easily and thus leav

Re: [vchkpw] new server OS suggestions

2007-11-04 Thread Quey
Michael Johnson wrote: It is nice to use Slackware because it doesn't do funky stuff with software. qmail installs fairly easily and fits in decently well. Oh, it also works great on slower hardware because you can strip services to the bare essentials easily and thus leave more resources for the

Re: [vchkpw] new server OS suggestions

2007-11-04 Thread Quey
Rainer Duffner wrote: Quey schrieb: Remo Mattei wrote: Hello I have a few questions since I am building a new server. Now the box is running centos 4.5 with qmail and fuzzyocr, spamassassin,dspam and tmda with simscan the load during the day is hi since it's an old P3 1.2mgz and 1.5g of mem. t

Re: [vchkpw] new server OS suggestions

2007-11-04 Thread Michael Johnson
Rainer Duffner wrote: > Quey schrieb: >> Remo Mattei wrote: >>> Hello I have a few questions since I am building a new server. Now the >>> box is running centos 4.5 with qmail and fuzzyocr, spamassassin,dspam >>> and tmda with simscan the load during the day is hi since it's an old P3 >>> 1.2mgz an

Re: [vchkpw] new server OS suggestions

2007-11-04 Thread Rainer Duffner
Quey schrieb: Remo Mattei wrote: Hello I have a few questions since I am building a new server. Now the box is running centos 4.5 with qmail and fuzzyocr, spamassassin,dspam and tmda with simscan the load during the day is hi since it's an old P3 1.2mgz and 1.5g of mem. this box is running mysql

Re: [vchkpw] new server OS suggestions

2007-11-03 Thread Quey
Remo Mattei wrote: Hello I have a few questions since I am building a new server. Now the box is running centos 4.5 with qmail and fuzzyocr, spamassassin,dspam and tmda with simscan the load during the day is hi since it's an old P3 1.2mgz and 1.5g of mem. this box is running mysql 4.1.x, vpopmai

[vchkpw] new server OS suggestions

2007-11-03 Thread Remo Mattei
Hello I have a few questions since I am building a new server. Now the box is running centos 4.5 with qmail and fuzzyocr, spamassassin,dspam and tmda with simscan the load during the day is hi since it's an old P3 1.2mgz and 1.5g of mem. this box is running mysql 4.1.x, vpopmail 5.4.17 with the DB